A Question That Deserves to Be Answered

[rodeodance]

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12481085.htm

> A Question That Deserves to Be Answered

> By Leonard Pitts Jr.

> The Miami Herald
>
> Friday 26 August 2005
>
> I want to ask George Bush: Why did my son die?
> -- Cindy Sheehan
>
> Cindy Sheehan will get her wish to meet with President Bush the day winged donkeys perform an air show in the skies above the South Lawn. In other words, never.
>
> In part this is because the president is famously intolerant of criticism and notoriously fumble-tongued when working without a script, so his handlers would rather chew glass than send him out to confront an angry protester who knows exactly what she believes and why. It is also because no president can afford to be seen as having been bullied into doing something. So Sheehan's vigil near the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch is likely to continue until the end of Bush's extended vacation without reaching resolution.
>
> Unless you count embarrassing a president who badly needed embarrassing. In which case, Sheehan's demand for a meeting has already been a smashing success.

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Or, was it not all simply for the stubborn hubris of a man unable to admit when he has erred and the blinkered morality of a frightened nation unwilling to call him on it?

I care nothing about Cindy Sheehan's marriage or her previous meeting with George Bush; she's asking the right question. I suspect that's precisely why some people care about those things so much.

[Lifelong Protester]

1. It is a simple and elegant question..

and if he's so damn sure he's right, why can't he answer it?

Thanks for posting the article snippet and link.

Stubborn hubris sank the Titanic too.

[rodeodance]

3. i wonder if there is an answer to this question.

[Lifelong Protester]

4. and of course we all know..

there is no answer, hence the dodge.
(well, no good and honorable answer)

[FloridaPat]

2. Can you just imagine Clinton in this position? I can't. He cared too

much. In fact, I can't even see him invading a defenseless country.